Direct-coupled plasma-assisted combustion using a microwave waveguide torch

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 39, Issue 12 PART 1, 2011, Pages 3300-3306

  Hammack, Stephen ^a   Rao, Xing ^a   Lee, Tonghun ^a   Carter, Campbell ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Energetically enhanced combustion; microwave plasma; planar laser induced fluorescence (PLIF); plasma assisted combustion (PAC); Rayleigh scattering thermometry

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PLASMA DISCHARGE; COMBUSTION POWER; COUPLED PLASMA; EQUIVALENCE RATIOS; INPUT POWER; MICROWAVE PLASMA; MICROWAVE POWER; MICROWAVE WAVEGUIDES; NONTHERMAL MECHANISM; NUMBER DENSITY; OH RADICAL; PLANAR LASER INDUCED FLUORESCENCE; PLASMA DISCHARGE; PLASMA-ASSISTED COMBUSTION (PAC); POWER LEVELS; PREMIXED; PREMIXED FLAME; RAYLEIGH; REACTION VOLUME; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; TUNABLE MICROWAVE;

COMBUSTION; FLUORESCENCE; FREE RADICALS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; MICROWAVE GENERATION; MICROWAVE POWER TRANSMISSION; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; THERMOMETERS; VORTEX FLOW; WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES;

EID: 83855162863     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2011.2161778     Document Type: Article

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